August 23, 2005
A follower of the anti-Semitic movement in the US Christian Identity (CI) has been sentenced to life in prison for a series of bombings in the southeastern United States. Eric Rudolph, who admitted to bombing the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta and several other sites, was sentenced on Monday for the attacks in which two people were killed and hundreds injured. Rudolph spent four months in 1984 at a camp for CI followers in Missouri. He told relatives that he hated Jews, complaining of their presence on television, and espoused Holocaust-denial rhetoric in high school. Rudolph attacked several women’s clinics, including one that performed abortions, and a gay nightclub. He was a fugitive for five years before being captured in 2003.
